Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership – Weekly Sunday Homily

In pastoral areas in our dioceses we have good-living pastoral agents, husbands and wives, rearing a family while also holding down a secular job and yet these couples find time…

The ACP wishes to bring to your notice that Marie Keenan is standing in the forthcoming Irish Seanad elections, one of twelve candidates in the NUI constituency. (Full list: https://www.nui.ie/elections/seanadelection2025/candidatesprofiles_2025.asp)…

Sarah Mac Donald reports in The Tablet: Link to article: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/15745/the-young-catholics-who-joyfully-embrace-church-teaching?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Tablet%20weekly%2009%20August%202022&utm_content=Tablet%20weekly%2009%20August%202022+CID_891f7016e216d0522b07a09deea37e53&utm_source=SxTabNews_v1&utm_term=Sarah%20Mac%20Donald%20reports Concerns have been “the acceleration of Catholics leaving the Church with young people being driven out in droves”. The…

Here‘s the link to the English livestream if you want to follow the 2nd big assembly of the German Synodal Path which will take place in Frankfurt. It starts today…

Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, casts an eye over Fernando Meirelle’s film The Two Popes.
Brendan draws one very definite conclusion; having stated that the enjoyment of the film is enhanced by the stunning background of Castel Gandolfo, Rome and the Vatican, Brendan says “It’s easy to see why that artificial world is a dangerous context for impressionable young men who can be easily convinced that Rome represents standards that should be replicated in the wider church and the wider world rather than unambiguously rejected.
Everything about this film suggests that the opposite is the case. The Rome depicted in The Two Popes should be given a wide berth.” 

Sean Ó Conaill: Retired teacher of high school history and author. Now editing here (personal website) and on acireland.ie – and campaigning for immediate implementation of Article 37 of Vatican…